“The activity is set up as closely as possible to how a project would be run in an engineering company,” one of the teachers tells us
“A laboratory will presumably analyse the cider samples before and after the launch”
From IES Peñamayor in Nava, we tell you where our project stands “A stratospheric culete” (a cider glass).
The activity is set up as closely as possible to how a project would be run in an engineering company, consultancy, etc. We have divided the group into several independent departments, one in charge of IT and programming, another of purchasing materials (sensors, GPS, camera, etc.), publicity…
Currently, now that we have the problem and the needs perfectly defined, we are in the phase of acquiring the components. The IT department is further along in this respect, so this week we have already acquired the controller (Raspberry Pi) and they will start programming it. Almost all the other components are outlined but there are still some things the two departments need to settle.
In addition, the two teachers most involved in the mission are talking to other outside parties, mainly to find sponsors, where we have already secured a collaborator, and on the technical side we will meet a laboratory that will presumably analyse the cider samples before and after the launch.
On the technical side, as the technology teacher and therefore supervisor of the assembly and programming of the probe itself, I have built a prototype of it on my own. The idea was to check the viability of the controller and the components before buying, since the budget we have is very limited. That prototype is now quite advanced and works, although I have not managed to implement LoRa telemetry.
The project team has a website where they will be posting updates on the progress of their experiment.